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The nurse provides discharge instructions to a patient who was hospitalized because of chest pain. The patient receives a prescription for nitroglycerin. Which patient statement indicates the need for further instruction?

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How to use nytroglycerin.

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"I should not take more than one nitroglycerin tablet to treat my chest pain."

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Chest pain results from the narrowing of the blood vessels that supply the muscles of the heart with blood. When this happens, those muscles will not get enough blood and definitely cause pain in the chest.

Nitroglycerin is the medication that is used to treat chest pain , especially when the patient has history of a certain heart condition. The drug or medication works by relaxing the smooth muscles of the walls of the blood vessel, thereby opening them for a free flow of blood to the muscles of the heart.

Some of the side effects of the drugs are headache, nausea, dizziness among others.

It should be noted that, headache

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